Written by Nkem Khumbah

Nkem Khumbah is a mathematics lecturer with the Comprehensive Studies Program at the University of Michigan and Executive Curator of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), Africa’s new Global Forum for Science, Policy and Society. He holds a Doctorate degree in information technology from George Mason University and has also held the role of assistant professor of mathematics at North Georgia College and State University. He also held research fellowships at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA and the Mathematical Science Research Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. An avid ambassador of international scientific capacity and human development, he is very engaged in work that supports African Scientific development, about which he has written and spoken widely.